26th September 2010 (1 days)
British Hill Climb Championship
The 50th year at Loton Park will fittingly come to an end with the final round of the 2010 British Hillclimb Championship plus the HSA Championship on 25th & 26th September. We have received a very full entry including all the top British Championship contenders. Going through the classes, we have a very special Mitsubishi entered in the form of Scottish front-runner Donald McCaskill who brings his hugely powerful turb0/supercharged EVO to Loton for the first time. There will be two exciting Ford Pumas contesting the Libre class, with the 4x4 turbo examples of Mike Manning and Mike Endean producing over 1200 combined bhp. The 1600 single-seater class has 23 entries, the 2-litre class 15 and the unlimited class boasts no less than 26 entries.
An exciting week-ends` motor sport in prospect!
Practice gets underway on Saturday at 9.00 a.m, admission £10.00 per person(no commentary). Competition runs will commence on Sunday at 9.30 a.m, with full commentary,admission £12.00 per person. Toilets and catering facilities will be on-site.
We will be organising a pig roast in the Village Hall on the Saturday evening, and tickets will be available to purchase at the door at £5.00 per person.
At a rain-interruped Prescott on 5th September,Scott Moran was visibly off-form collecting"nil points".Martin Groves picked up 16 points for his 2nd & 4th places, taking a clead lead at the top of the table with 230 points to Scott`s 210. Trevor Willis showed his superb car control with FTD and 29 points to take him level with Roger Moran in third place overall. With many of the big V8-engined cars unable to take advantage of their superior power, the stars of the day were in the 1600cc class, Eynon Price taking advantage of his rallying exprerience netting maximum points in the first run-off, and Richard Spedding taking 3rd spot in the second run-off.The points standings are currently-:
1st-Martin Groves 230, 2nd-Scott Moran 210, 3rd equal-Hagley Club President Roger Moran and Trevor Willis on 182. Chris Merrick is 5th on 129, Tom New and Paul Ranson share 6th place with 108 points,so its all to play for with 2 events,(4 rounds) to go at Prescott, Doune and the finale at Loton.
We will update this information after each event.
